Directed by Wladyslaw Pasikowski, Poland, 1992)
Pasikowski is known as the first commercially successful director in post-89 Poland, and Pigs was the first major action film to break through the international competition from Hollywood, Western Europe and Asia that dominated Polish theaters in the transition era. The title, literally “dogs,” refers to its protagonists: former secret police who have been demoted to ordinary beat cops because of their questionable ethical behavior. They confront the corruption of the new order with a mixture of espionage, blackmail, and automatic weapons.